The Vienna Sausage Company moved its operations from an old, improvised building to a modern, state-of-the-art facility — but the sausages didn't taste as good. For over a year, the company strived to fix this issue without success. One day, they remembered one of the ex-employees, Irving - he used to take half an hour trips through various production rooms to move the sausages from the filling room to the smokehouse. It turned out that these daily commutes were infusing some secret flavors in products - so they decided to replicate it by adding a new production room modeled after Irving's journeys. This enabled them to recreate their original sausage flavor.
Enabling loopback connections in WordPress means making sure your server can make HTTP requests to itself (e.g., calling https://yoursite.com/wp-cron.php from within itself). Loopback is required for: WP-Cron jobs Plugin/theme editors (to verify file write permissions) Some site health checks ( Tools > Site Health ) Automatic updates ✅ What Is a Loopback Request? A loopback is when your WordPress site tries to request a URL from itself using tools like wp_remote_get() or fsockopen() . For example: $response = wp_remote_get ( home_url ( '/wp-cron.php' ) ); If this fails, you might see warnings in Tools > Site Health like: “Your site could not complete a loopback request.” 🛠 How to Enable Loopback Requests Here are the key steps depending on your hosting/server setup: ✅ 1. Make Sure localhost or Domain Resolves Internally Check your server can resolve requests to itself. Use this quick PHP script: Create a file test-loopback.php i...
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